KÜRESELLEŞEN DÜNYADA KÜLTÜR ve KİMLİK SORUNU
CULTURE AND THE ISSUE OF IDENTITY IN A GLOBALISED WORLD

Summary/Abstract: This study starts from a definite stand against the threats to national and local cultures (exluding Western culture). These threats are the results of the historical transformation which is called ‘globalisation’ which we are currently experiencing. What I call ‘the threat of standardization’ can be explained as placing all different cultures under the hegemony of Western culture and trying to assimilate them. The cultures which do not take part in this face threats from the western culture that is expressed by the terms ‘the Clashes of Civilisation’, in particular, or what Hantington calls ‘green enemy’ or the ‘Islamic Threat’. Another threat is the disintegration into small pieces. This threat can be seen in two ways: First, attacks to the great cultural identity that unites all; second, revitalisation of small ethnic-sectarian identities. All these happen within the context of cultural interactions that arise in different forms. This study will concentrate on two points: The main elements of the concepts of ‘national culture’ and ‘national identity’ and the possible changes that may take place in them; ‘cultural interaction’, its kinds and the mechanism of its actualisation.

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